Cross Bank Methodist Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1984. Methodist sunday school.
Cross Bank Methodist Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- final-loggia-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Dewsbury and Batley MP: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1984
- Type
- Methodist sunday school
- Address
- Cross Bank Methodist Sunday School, Blakeridge Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 238 244
- Coordinates
- 53.71623, -1.64046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cross Bank Methodist Sunday School is a Methodist Sunday School built in 1882. It is constructed of dressed stone and features a hipped slate roof. The building has two storeys and a gable frontage that measures seven bays wide by five bays deep.
The central three bays project slightly and are topped with an open pediment that has a vase acroterion. On the first floor, there are pilasters with foliated capitals. The main entrance is a round arched doorway with a double panelled door and fanlight, which is topped by a segmental open pediment supported by large console brackets. This pediment bears the inscription "WESLEYAN SUNDAY SCHOOL ENLARGED 1882".
To the left and right of the entrance are round arched windows that have a foliated impost band. The first-floor windows in the central projection form a triple group, featuring red granite colonnettes with annulets and foliated capitals that support stilted round arched heads. The central window is taller and breaks into the open pediment above. Each side arch has a carved bird in the tympanum, while the centre arch contains a round foliated panel with a small rectangular panel below that has anthemion decoration. The two side windows have aprons with tiled panels.
The windows in the flanking bays and side elevations are also round arched and have an impost band. The first-floor windows are adorned with hood moulds and alternately coloured voussoirs.
Local climate
Cross Bank Methodist Sunday School receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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